by Richard Flanagan · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784701383
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«The Narrow Road to the Deep North» is the historical and war novel by Richard Flanagan, published by Vintage in paperback (464 pages, in English).
In the midst of World War II, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans tries to keep alive the prisoners of a Japanese camp beside the Burma Death Railway, while haunted by the memory of a forbidden love with his uncle's young wife. The arrival of a letter will confront him with his own truth.
The novel won the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Australian Richard Flanagan is the son of a survivor of the Burma Death Railway.
For readers of historical and war fiction, literary narrative and book clubs interested in World War II.
Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes. "Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation" according to The Economist, Flanagan has also worked as a film director and screenwriter.
